Discovering a new decay pathway would be quite something. Then you would need to figure out why the beta pathway does not match what the Standard Model wants, and also why it does appear now to match what the Standard Model wants.
Nature seems to love tricks like this: Ha, you thought you understood how something is? Wrong, it just pretends to be like that! It is really much more eldritch, and you are damned. (I.e., the maths are too hard for actual people to work.) Good luck figuring out how it is only pretending to be that, too.
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Discovering a new decay pathway would be quite something. Then you would need to figure out why the beta pathway does not match what the Standard Model wants, and also why it does appear now to match what the Standard Model wants.
Nature seems to love tricks like this: Ha, you thought you understood how something is? Wrong, it just pretends to be like that! It is really much more eldritch, and you are damned. (I.e., the maths are too hard for actual people to work.) Good luck figuring out how it is only pretending to be that, too.